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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really don't see why. I express Ian Stewart hatred many times every 24 hours, but I still hope he hits 30 HRs if we bring him back. I hope he hits 60....no, infinitiy. If Ian Stewart hits infinity home runs, the season can never end and the Cubs never reach the ultimate goal, whether it be winning the World Series or seeing the All-Homegrown Right Way Lineup come to fruition. Derp.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really don't see why. I express Ian Stewart hatred many times every 24 hours, but I still hope he hits 30 HRs if we bring him back.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    http://forums.prosportsdaily.com/showthread.php?p=24494456#post24494456 What's the problem? I expect Cabrera to suck as a starter. Since he's going to be tried as a starter, I hope he pulls a Samardzija and I'm wrong.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Point was: if prospects can get you Stanton, it's a steal, no matter who the prospects are.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Winter league team executive on Vitters: ""No pudo tomar el ritmo a la ofensiva y no tenemos tiempo para esperar" Translates to: "He couldn't take the rhythm of the offense and we have no time to wait."
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Lee had one season in his entire career as good as what Stanton has already done.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    In the corresponding move, Casey Coleman has been DFA'd.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's a bit hyperbolic, but Stanton's age 22 season is actually a bit better. That's the level of talent we're dealing with here.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, but in theory Baez might be there at this point next offseason, and maybe Almora too (though I doubt it). If the Marlins want to give us Albert Pujols for Juan Cruz and Hee Seop Choi, I'm all on board. I can't believe it would be that cheap.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    Dang, well, you win this round. That evens up the score for the last two days.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, think about all the utterly elite assets they sent out in those trades...
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Marlins aren't going to want a pile of prospects. Good young MLBers are worth more than prospects.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes, but only in the brave new world where we aren't measuring pitchers by how many runs score while they are pitching. It hurts my head but I'm trying to adapt.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really wish I knew how much we had to spend. After arbitration awards and filling out the roster with pre-arb guys, we're up to about $85 million, depending on how you want to count the incentives and if you non-tender Ian Stewart.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Garz and Samardzija are of course a wash. I think Baker can be Dempster and Feldman can be Maholm and Wood is better than Volstad.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Advertising is starting to realize that sports are the only thing people watch live and might accidentally watch some commercials.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not going to answer that, mostly because it perpetuates the false assertion that the Cubs needed to add 30 wins. Okay, make it whatever number you think it should be then. At least then the disagreement would be over something more tangible. EDIT: And implicitly, you kinda make the point here. If that is the number, or even close to it, there isn't really a precedent because it's a gap too big to overcome with one offseason. OK. Actual inherited players contributed 18 wins last year, excluding a couple of guys who were only called up after the trade deadline to fill space. Players they inherited but traded elsewhere before the season started produced another 5 fWAR around the league. So they inherited 23 WAR last year. According to Fangraphs, the league accumulated 1,130 WAR last season, or 38 per team. So the Cubs front office needed to find 15 WAR last season to be a .500 team and within variance range of a playoff spot. They needed 24 to project to 90 wins.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    What does that have to do with this thread? I like the fact that Feldman has some bullpen potential if he doesn't cut it as a starter or we find five better ones at some point in the season. I think he'd play very well in a setup role. It says right there that they assured him that he'll be a permanent member of the rotation. Obviously, they can go back on that promise, but it just seems like an odd reply. It is. I'm mostly just sort of hoping we go back on it or Cabrera pulls a Samardzija and aces him out or something.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm not going to answer that, mostly because it perpetuates the false assertion that the Cubs needed to add 30 wins.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    What does that have to do with this thread? I like the fact that Feldman has some bullpen potential if he doesn't cut it as a starter or we find five better ones at some point in the season. I think he'd play very well in a setup role.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    Hendry got fired because, as someone on another board very astutely put it, he never found a good replacement for himself in charge of the farm system. The Astros had nothing. The Cubs had a lot more than the apologists will ever, ever admit.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The statement was silly and absurd in itself. It didn't me to change anything about it. The only things Theo inherited were people who played for the Cubs in 2012, and their 2012 WAR is what they will do in 2013. i thought i was being kind! we don't actually project Soriano and Barney to repeat their '12s when WAR projections come out we'll see that the difference is largely indistinguishable and too negligible to really even care about That's partially true (although maybe Castro will live up to his Trout-esque talent this coming season). But it also ignores that a lot of the assets he inherited were either mishandled (Garza, Colvin) or severely depreciated (Jackson) in 2012. And most importantly, it ignores money. He inherited a crap-ton of money.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's not me who is putting forward the extreme here. The opposing argument is that the Cubs' current front office took over a team so incredibly awful that there was no point in even trying to field a competitive baseball team and therefore they cannot be blamed when it went incredibly, incredibly wrong. I'm not the one saying that the only relevant information about what they inherited is the 2012 fWAR of players who were on the Cubs in 2011 and project to be in 2013. The Rizzo trade proves my point: You don't need to pay $5 million per win. You can find them if you make smart decisions. They made some, they could have made more.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, if I tried to make arguments anywhere near as bad as the ones he's putting forth (33 wins would have cost $150 MILLION!!!), you'd be all over it. He's losing, badly.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    So we're back to the point where Theo and Jed mind-controlled the Padres into giving us Rizzo for a completely worthless asset? No. Go ahead and throw the effective reliever into the mix. So we've got an entire middle infield, a catcher, a LFer, a couple of good middle relievers, two starting pitchers and $80 million+ to work with. If that's not enough, you hired the wrong guy.
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